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Isère. What Happened? Who Is the Suspect? Update on the Investigation After the Attack of a Mayor with a "Scratch Piece"

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To answer the many questions of journalists in the face of a case that has taken on a national dimension, the prosecutor of the Republic of Grenoble, Étienne Manteaux, gave a press conference on Sunday morning. He went back to the facts and personality of the suspect, Malek Aouadj, a 60-year-old man, without a judicial record, charged and placed in pre-trial detention.

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To answer the many questions of journalists in the face of a case that has taken on a national dimension, the prosecutor of the Republic of Grenoble, Étienne Manteaux, gave a press conference on Sunday morning. He went back to the facts and personality of the suspect, Malek Aouadj, a 60-year-old man, without a judicial record, charged and placed in pre-trial detention.

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A 60-year-old man was charged with "attempting murder" and placed in pre-trial detention on Sunday after seriously hurting Villeneuve-de-Marc Mayor Gilles Dussault on Wednesday.

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On Wednesday 6 August, Gilles Dussault, mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc, was violently assaulted with a white weapon while walking with his son, recalls Le Dauphiné Libéré. Touched twice in the thorax, near the heart, and in the arm, he also escaped an attempt to hit by his attacker. Victim of a serious pneumothorax, his condition improves and he should soon leave the hospital. At the age of 60, the suspect had fled after the assault, but was arrest…

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Gilles Dussaut, the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc (Isère), was hospitalized after being violently beaten in the thorax and arm with a white weapon.

·Paris, France
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Arrested two days after the violent assault of the mayor of Villeneuve-de-Marc, in Isère, the man admitted to having beaten him, while denying that he wanted to kill him.

·Paris, France
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In front of the investigators, the 60-year-old man referred to a former real estate conflict with the mayor, having created a "feel of injustice" in his home. The prosecution demanded that he be charged for "attempting murder".

·Paris, France
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Le Monde broke the news in Paris, France on Sunday, August 10, 2025.
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